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they are the ones doing the public posturing for him. >> i think also that john boehner does not have a strong hand. he has got a caucus that has dug in its heels on any kind of compromise. i saw this picture of john boehner, this cartoon character, holding a football and saying to president obama "trust me." >> there was an election on november 6 and the democrats did not do that badly. who is here? >> everybody has got to give. >> it really is true. you cannot tax your way out of this debt, you cannot slash expenses and get out of this in debt. you have got to do both. >> somewhat gradually. >> the president seems to be offering a two-for-one deal -- for every $1 of tax increase, he will cut expenses by $2. simpson-bowles wanted a one-to-3 ratio. the republicans want zero. >> but they have the business community that does not want us to go for the cliff -- >> if you use a different language, are there republicans amenable to an increase in taxes -- >> use the word "revenue." >> nancy pelosi took the position, a good negotiating position, that it ought to be $1 million to hundred $50
they are the ones doing the public posturing for him. >> i think also that john boehner does not have a strong hand. he has got a caucus that has dug in its heels on any kind of compromise. i saw this picture of john boehner, this cartoon character, holding a football and saying to president obama "trust me." >> there was an election on november 6 and the democrats did not do that badly. who is here? >> everybody has got to give. >> it really is true. you...
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boehner. is it any different, or is this just about, i don't know, smoke and mirrors? >> well, i think the atmosphere is certainly different as you mentioned. in the past, these guys would go back to capitol hill and put out competing statements about what went on during the meetings. you saw what happened last year during the debt ceiling negotiations. this time it was one big happy family. there certainly seems to be some sort of recognition on the part of how fed up american people with sort of the seeing this game of chicken being played at such a high stakes time. i think there is certainly, after this election, there is kind of a let's get down to business. let's see if we can get this thing done. whether that can translate -- david just said, the biggest sticking point, taxes on the wealthy is still on the table. you can sing happy birthday to john boehner as much as you want. gwen: he would still say no. >> absolutely. i think it's really premature to try to predict what is going to ha
boehner. is it any different, or is this just about, i don't know, smoke and mirrors? >> well, i think the atmosphere is certainly different as you mentioned. in the past, these guys would go back to capitol hill and put out competing statements about what went on during the meetings. you saw what happened last year during the debt ceiling negotiations. this time it was one big happy family. there certainly seems to be some sort of recognition on the part of how fed up american people...
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his plan b died. >> let me be clear, speaker boehner's plans are nonstarters in the senate. >> boehner appeared on friday morning and said, if this thing were easy, it would have been done decades ago. >> i am interested in solving the major problems that face our country. that means house leaders, senate leaders, and the president, are going to continue to have to work together to address those concerns. >> the president has lifted his number to 400,000, no tax hikes for anyone making more than a million. boehner wants tax hikes for those making more than 1 million. done decades ago. what happened? >> he did not have the votes, as simple as that. he had to pull back. his own caucus let him down. he thought he could get the 218 votes he needed from his caucus and they were not there. >> are we going over the cliff? >> there is a chance we could avert that. boehner's statement on friday morning suggests that he was still willing to work with the president to come up with something. the outcome is likely to be that the fringes on both parties will have to be forgotten and they will have
his plan b died. >> let me be clear, speaker boehner's plans are nonstarters in the senate. >> boehner appeared on friday morning and said, if this thing were easy, it would have been done decades ago. >> i am interested in solving the major problems that face our country. that means house leaders, senate leaders, and the president, are going to continue to have to work together to address those concerns. >> the president has lifted his number to 400,000, no tax hikes...
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some democrats think that mitch mcconnell is ready to force john boehner's hand. we know the republicans are going to lose the fight of taxes because tax rates are going to go up for every -- the only question is how many people they go up for. so if you already know what the outcome is going to be, the question is how much punishment do they want to take? it is possible that they would wait after january 1. they could say we're going to cut taxes now instead of vote to allow them to go up. gwen: let's move on. because there's one more thing we want to go to. from iran to syria to libya to egypt to israeli, palestinian standoff over gaza, the obama administration's wishes have seldom been.raedpt >> we and the world haveed join in condemning the brutality of the assad regime. >> no one wants to determine what happened that night in benghazi more than the president and i do. >> and this administration has either been guilty of colossal incompetence or engaged in a coverup. >> a red line should be drawn right here. before iran completes the second stage of nuclear en
some democrats think that mitch mcconnell is ready to force john boehner's hand. we know the republicans are going to lose the fight of taxes because tax rates are going to go up for every -- the only question is how many people they go up for. so if you already know what the outcome is going to be, the question is how much punishment do they want to take? it is possible that they would wait after january 1. they could say we're going to cut taxes now instead of vote to allow them to go up....
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so they look ahead, they see 2010 and think if taxes do go up for the middle class, it will be john boehner, and the republicans to take the blame. >> well, that may be but who is it going to play that kind of bluffing game with the debt ceiling because that's when you really risk tremendous market reactions and peril. i know you talked about david petraeus, and the whole foreign policy issue last night on charlie, martha, but do you-- let me ask you again, do you take seriously the notion that john kerry could be defense secretary? >> i think that was a trial balloon. >> you do? >> i 19, clearly both of those stories were trial balloons. president obama, obviously, took it a little further, quite a bit further today talking about susan rice. it was no longer a trial balloon. but i think john kerry-- you know, is that a consolation prize? i think he's probably always wanted to be secretary of state. i'm not sure how that would go over at the pentagon. i mean, when you talk about someone going into-- as secretary of state, who maybe doesn't have the experience that some people want. i think
so they look ahead, they see 2010 and think if taxes do go up for the middle class, it will be john boehner, and the republicans to take the blame. >> well, that may be but who is it going to play that kind of bluffing game with the debt ceiling because that's when you really risk tremendous market reactions and peril. i know you talked about david petraeus, and the whole foreign policy issue last night on charlie, martha, but do you-- let me ask you again, do you take seriously the...
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boehner talk about not raising rates. so is there some sort of compromise in the difference between the term rates and revenues? >> i done think will is any question. and actually there's a lot of commonality on that issue in the senate. the fact is that folks in the upper income bracket lick me, we ought to eliminate loopholes and those kinds of things that are you really spending in another name. so we can generate more revenues from the upper income by eliminating those tax expenditures which really, again, is just spending in another name. and i think-- bses you can give us an example of how -- >> there are all kind of expenditures there is a home mortgage deduction. charitable contribution, the health care exclusion. and the best way to keep from getting into a political argument over which one is just to cap the amount that people in upper income brackets can take of any of those. let them choose which they want to take. but there's been a lot of discussion in the senate over this. and i think a lot of people have c
boehner talk about not raising rates. so is there some sort of compromise in the difference between the term rates and revenues? >> i done think will is any question. and actually there's a lot of commonality on that issue in the senate. the fact is that folks in the upper income bracket lick me, we ought to eliminate loopholes and those kinds of things that are you really spending in another name. so we can generate more revenues from the upper income by eliminating those tax...
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but i made a deal with john boehner and i will keep this deal with john boehner, he put revenue on the table, this is where he is going. >> he probably wouldn't have been able to sell that. and that goes to another underlying problem. >> rose: on the house side. >> i think on either side. >> rose: really? >> and that goes to the aloofness or coldness between house or hill democrats in the white house. those relationships are not supergreat either. because-- there just hasn't been the emotional. obama is not that kind of guy. he is a more intro verted guy so it's not like we are blood brothers together, we played football together, we played golf together that is not there. >> rose: so the election will depend as they head to the crucial period between now and november 6s, on the debate. >> right. >> rose: can, i mean is there other than something happening, is it unlikely that something happening being an external event in the international front or b, a debate that is so one-sided which i think is unlikely to be one-sided. the best that could happen would say to me is that the person
but i made a deal with john boehner and i will keep this deal with john boehner, he put revenue on the table, this is where he is going. >> he probably wouldn't have been able to sell that. and that goes to another underlying problem. >> rose: on the house side. >> i think on either side. >> rose: really? >> and that goes to the aloofness or coldness between house or hill democrats in the white house. those relationships are not supergreat either. because-- there...
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john boehner certainly was not eager to talk about gay marriage. he would answer that question saying, marriage is between one man and one woman but i'm here to talk about the economy." democrats on the hill in terms of the fiscal bombs that are about to go off think they have some lemple steve mentioned the sequester, domestic and defense cuts-- >> woodruff: automatic cuts if they can't reach an agreement. >> which are going into effect january 1, and everyone including republicans signed on to. democrats are sitting on the hill telling me, we're fine with that. republicans, sure, we can undo those $600 billion in defense cut if you want to. we can tie it to the debt limit if you want to. let's talk revenue. put a dollar of tax increases on the table. in terms of the election, as the president and mitt romney go to the public with these two issues, the democrats' message is, yes, we have a fiscal problem, but the other side won't even consider a tax increase for the richest among us. you've heard that refrain, i don't need to explain it. yes, we h
john boehner certainly was not eager to talk about gay marriage. he would answer that question saying, marriage is between one man and one woman but i'm here to talk about the economy." democrats on the hill in terms of the fiscal bombs that are about to go off think they have some lemple steve mentioned the sequester, domestic and defense cuts-- >> woodruff: automatic cuts if they can't reach an agreement. >> which are going into effect january 1, and everyone including...
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because that is not john boehner's style. he's not a bombastic guy any nature. by practice. you know, i think the white house would have been better served if they had visited maybe the university of vermont and the university of canvas. i mean to go to three swing states and to the universities there, and certainly opens it up to the accusation that this is a political rather than a substantive visit. but i mean, this is vintage quadrennial vintage politics. the president wherever he goes is still the president even though he's the party leader, and the nominee of this party. and it was true of george w when he ran for re-election t was true of bill clinton and it was certainly true of ronald w reagan when he ran for election. >> the supreme court, david, took up the arizona immigration law this week. you listened to some of the arguments. a lot of speculation about whether they will uphold it or not but whatever they do, does that affect the campaign, the presidential. >> i think immigration will play a lesser role this time than many of the pastimes. first i suspect there
because that is not john boehner's style. he's not a bombastic guy any nature. by practice. you know, i think the white house would have been better served if they had visited maybe the university of vermont and the university of canvas. i mean to go to three swing states and to the universities there, and certainly opens it up to the accusation that this is a political rather than a substantive visit. but i mean, this is vintage quadrennial vintage politics. the president wherever he goes is...
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a note, we did interview house speaker john boehner last week. you can watch that interview on our web site. >> brown: it's become ever clearer that social networking is having a profound impact on how politics today works; how campaigns act and re-act, how journalists get and transmit information, how money is raised, how issues are fought over, and much more. tonight we begin a new feature that will track the campaign and political issues as they play out in social media and on the web. for that we'll be joined regularly by two journalists from the new website, daily download. lauren ashburn is the site's editor in chief and formerly with "usa today live" and gannett broadcasting. howard kurtz is "newsweek's" washington bureau chief and host of cnn's "reliable sources." welcome to the newshour. >> thank you. >> brown: so every time we meet here around the table we're going to talk about a particular campaign or issue starting tonight with mitt romney. largely, lauren, because he's so active in social media, right? >> he is so active. especially
a note, we did interview house speaker john boehner last week. you can watch that interview on our web site. >> brown: it's become ever clearer that social networking is having a profound impact on how politics today works; how campaigns act and re-act, how journalists get and transmit information, how money is raised, how issues are fought over, and much more. tonight we begin a new feature that will track the campaign and political issues as they play out in social media and on the web....
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if speaker boehner says i'll go along with that, that's where we'll start. i think the conversation is under way for a solution. >> ifill: senator durban, are you kicking the can down the road by only talking about the tax ruts and not talking about the spending cuts as well? >> let me tell you something, i was on the bowles simpson commission, i voted for it, bipartisan commission that included spending cuts as well as revenue increases. i know that to reach four or five trillion dollars in deficit reduction you need to put everything on the table. not just taxes for the wealthy. that's an important piece of it, but it isn't all of it. you need much more. >> the president said today in his news conference that he was very familiar with the literature on the overreach of presidents in their second term or their potential for overreach. do you think that's a possibility here? do you see that? we have heard, for instance, republicans say, hey, we can talk about immigration now. is it possible that some things actually are in reach? >> oh, i do think -- i think
if speaker boehner says i'll go along with that, that's where we'll start. i think the conversation is under way for a solution. >> ifill: senator durban, are you kicking the can down the road by only talking about the tax ruts and not talking about the spending cuts as well? >> let me tell you something, i was on the bowles simpson commission, i voted for it, bipartisan commission that included spending cuts as well as revenue increases. i know that to reach four or five trillion...
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then, judy woodruff has a newsmaker interview with the speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner. >> suarez: betty ann bowser reports on the fallout from a new ruling mandating that faith- based organizations provide birth control coverage. >> it's essential for women's health and for the health of their children and ultimately the health of their whole family. >> we think it's really important that we not be obliged to pay for something that we view as immoral. >> ifill: we look at what's next for the republican presidential hopefuls after mitt romney's victory in nevada, with stuart rothenberg of the "rothenberg political report" and susan page of "u.s.a. today." >> suarez: and hari sreenivasan updates the turmoil in egypt, where 19 americans working for nonprofit groups face trial. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of th
then, judy woodruff has a newsmaker interview with the speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner. >> suarez: betty ann bowser reports on the fallout from a new ruling mandating that faith- based organizations provide birth control coverage. >> it's essential for women's health and for the health of their children and ultimately the health of their whole family. >> we think it's really important that we not be obliged to pay for something that we view as immoral....
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flatly said, no, we want to be more cautious, and interestingly enough today, they got support from john boehner, the speaker of the house, who said in an interview that he was actually closer to president obama than he was to senator mccain on this issue. quoich so when we figure it out, maybe perhaps syria will figure it out at some point. thank you, doyle, for that, and thanks everybody else as well. we send our thoughts and our condolences out to the victims of the aurora shooting. keep up with the evolving story line online and on air at the pbs website and that's pbs.org/"washington week." follow us on facebook and twitter and we'll see you again here next week on "washington week." good night. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we know why we're here -- to chart a greener path in the air and in our factories of the >> to find cleaner, more efficient ways to power flight. >> and harness our technology for new energy solutions. >> around the globe the people of boeing are working together to build a better
flatly said, no, we want to be more cautious, and interestingly enough today, they got support from john boehner, the speaker of the house, who said in an interview that he was actually closer to president obama than he was to senator mccain on this issue. quoich so when we figure it out, maybe perhaps syria will figure it out at some point. thank you, doyle, for that, and thanks everybody else as well. we send our thoughts and our condolences out to the victims of the aurora shooting. keep up...
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and between him and speaker boehner last summer and that this was -- >> the united states lost its credit rating as you will recall as a consequence of this, or potential shut down and so the president was at that time according to best reporting or most reporting, ready to offer this grand bargain. the speaker was as well but found out that his own caucus, it would be a mutiny. this, david is right, this was to be the enforcing mechanism. you can see it is a serious enforcing meck civil because it has gotten their attention. >> you were also saying earlier today this highlights a division among some repubcans that defense hawks versus so-called tea party hawks. how much of a fact certificate that. >> it really opened newspaper the last year or two, you have the defense hawks who really think this would devastate or think cut was devastate our national security and they're lead by monday jean chretien main and lindsay graham and the more tea party oriented people who are just not that-- they're not against defense spending but it's not a priority, lowering taxes and economic domestic econ
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speaker boehner is talking about closing loopholes. other republicans are saying maybe like they're prepared to look at revenue. what are... are there concrete examples there that have the makings of some kind of deal down the road? >> very little is concrete at this point. but the movement from saying we don't want government to grow at all. the answer to this fiscal crisis is not to grow government to the position that you're hearing from leadership now which is, yes, we can have revenue. that's part of a broader deal that we're going to make. that's a substantial shift. that's not the same thing as the fight over tax rates, income tax rates. the president has said i will sign no deal that doesn't bring the income tax rates for the top earners back up to 96.5%. that's a slightly... there's a new nuance there that gives politicians wiggle room over what the definition of revenue is, but there has been movement on that. there's been even more movement. you heard a prominent republican on the sunday shows, bill kristol a prominent conse
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boehner said house republicans have done what's needed, by passing bills to avoid the looming "fiscal cliff." instead, he put the blame squarely on senate democrats and the president. >> i'm not confident at all. listen, the house has done its job on both the sequester and on the looming tax hikes that will cost our economy some 700,000 jobs. the senate at some point has to act. on both of these, where is the president? where is the leadership? absent without leave. >> sreenivasan: negotiations on avoiding the cuts are not expected until after the november elections. in the meantime, the moody's rating agency said today it will likely cut its triple-a credit rating on u.s. government bonds, if the budget talks fail. wall street managed to move ahead today, recouping some of monday's losses. the dow jones industrial average gained 69 points to close at 13,232. the nasdaq rose half a point to close at 3104. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >> brown: and we head back to chicago, and the national spotlight focused on a teacher's strike in the nation's third la
boehner said house republicans have done what's needed, by passing bills to avoid the looming "fiscal cliff." instead, he put the blame squarely on senate democrats and the president. >> i'm not confident at all. listen, the house has done its job on both the sequester and on the looming tax hikes that will cost our economy some 700,000 jobs. the senate at some point has to act. on both of these, where is the president? where is the leadership? absent without leave. >>...
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this is boehner saying he was drawing a line in the sand say og no new tax, we're going to demand real spending cuts but i think was really more mobilizing the debates. what happened is after the election they had taxmegeddon where all the tax cuts, spending he is guest-- he is quest trace starts arc lot of things happening at once and it is the potential for a complete catastrophe because the whole system goes ca blewy. we will have to fix these complicated issues at once and the republicans are saying we will do fundamental tax reform. i happen to think they are right. last time it took two or three years, how will we do it in a couple of weeks. so i think what they will do is kick the condition down the road. >> brown: again. >> again. and then we'll see how the election turns out. but right now everybody is posturing to say this is what we stand for. we stand are for spending cuts or in the democrat's case, we stand for keeping the middle class tax cuts but not the rich. >> brown: what do you think this was all about, raising it. >> i think it was about republican politics and i th
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and house speaker john boehner said republicans are willing to offer higher tax revenue as part of a deal. >> to show our seriousness we've put revenue on the table, as long as it's accompanied by significant spending cuts. and while we're going to continue to have revenue on the table, it's going to be incumbent for my colleagues to show the american people that we're serious about cutting spending and solving our fiscal dilemma. >> holman: on the democratic side, senate majority leader reid promised work will continue on a deal over the thanksgiving recess. he said, "we all know something has to be done." wall street took some hope from that white house meeting. the dow jones industrial average gained nearly 46 points to close at 12,588. the nasdaq rose 16 points to close at 2,853. but for the week, the dow and the nasdaq fell nearly 2%. also today, j.p. morgan chase and credit suisse agreed to pay $417 million in a federal civil settlement. they allegedly sold mortgage bonds they knew could fail before the 2008 financial crisis. it looks like twilight for twinkies. hostess brands
and house speaker john boehner said republicans are willing to offer higher tax revenue as part of a deal. >> to show our seriousness we've put revenue on the table, as long as it's accompanied by significant spending cuts. and while we're going to continue to have revenue on the table, it's going to be incumbent for my colleagues to show the american people that we're serious about cutting spending and solving our fiscal dilemma. >> holman: on the democratic side, senate majority...
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. >> congressional committee voted to recommend a citation-- john boehner says will bring it to the full house next week but hasn't specified the day, what is going on. >> was's going on is a really dubious policy that opened up a lot of questions called fast and furious which basically ram guns out there with the expectation, full expectation that they would be bought by straw purchases and then end up in the custody of members and they-- gang members and then they could be traced for the prosecution of more serious crimes than just buying guns. it went awry. an agent of the alcohol tobacco firearms was killed in a shoot-out. and the question is the republicans in the house want a fuller explanation the department of justice expend-- is very much on the defensive. john edwards case they lost, the stevens case they lost. they haven't prosecuted anybody. wall street who brought the nation to its knees so, there is a certain lack of kind of support and enthusiasm for it but at the same time it smacks of election year politics, darrell issa the chairman of that committee has been dying for
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. >> woodruff: that came after house speaker john boehner made this assessment of the g.o.p's prospects in april on fox news. >> i would say that there is a two-in-three chance that we win control of the house again, but there's a one-in-three chance that we could lose, and i'm being myself, frank. we've got a big challenge, and we've got work to do. >> woodruff: a new reuters poll found that voters nationally would pick the democratic candidate in their district 47% to 44% over the republican choice, giving democrats confidence that winning the majority is at least possible. but the fact is, democrats need 25 more seats to take back power this fall, and both parties know the decennial redistricting process makes that even harder. shira toeplitz covers congressional elections for roll call. >> redistricting has drastically changed a lot of these competitive house seats. places where in the last ten years we've seen competitive house races, they aren't as competitive any more because one party or the other redrew the lines around these house seats to make them more democratic or more rep
. >> woodruff: that came after house speaker john boehner made this assessment of the g.o.p's prospects in april on fox news. >> i would say that there is a two-in-three chance that we win control of the house again, but there's a one-in-three chance that we could lose, and i'm being myself, frank. we've got a big challenge, and we've got work to do. >> woodruff: a new reuters poll found that voters nationally would pick the democratic candidate in their district 47% to 44%...
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house speaker john boehner's reaction? >> this action goes beyond the president's authority and i expect the courts had find the appointment to be illegitimate. >> reporter: the consumer financial protection bureau was created under the 2010 dodd frank financial reform law. the argument for it, that it will promote fairness and transparency in consumer lending like mortgages and credit cards. the argument against, as an independent bureau funded through the federal reserve, it has too much power. the senate banking committee's richard shelby. >> this massive new bureaucracy was designed by the drafters of dodd-frank to be virtually unaccountable to the american people. >> reporter: the struggle preceded cordray's appointment. harvard law professor elizabeth warren set up the bureau as a special advisor after it became clear she would never be confirmed by theson senate. she was opposed by business by backed by consumer advocates who produced a rap video on her behalf. republicans meanwhile distrusted the bureau. as seen in
house speaker john boehner's reaction? >> this action goes beyond the president's authority and i expect the courts had find the appointment to be illegitimate. >> reporter: the consumer financial protection bureau was created under the 2010 dodd frank financial reform law. the argument for it, that it will promote fairness and transparency in consumer lending like mortgages and credit cards. the argument against, as an independent bureau funded through the federal reserve, it has...
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. >> reporter: and the house speaker republican john boehner expressed a similar sentiment at his weekly news conference yesterday. >> this is outrageous behavior regardless of whose administration it is. and, you know, i wrote my checks out on sunday to pay my taxes. i can imagine millions of other americans wrote their checks out. and they're taking their hard- earned money and sending it to washington, and this is outrageous that their tax money is getting wasted in this fashion. >> reporter: the post's ed o'keefe says it remains unclear if the universal outrage will get lawmakers to work together to address problems at the g.s.a. >> there are lawmakers who said "yes, i'm going to bring up legislation, we're going to push for this." we'll see. right now with congress unable to do most of anything, it's possible this is something that could get rammed through before election day, but if it doesn't get done before election day and the longer we get away from this, the longer we forget about this scandal, it may just be that it goes the way of all the other scandals. >> reporter: in the
. >> reporter: and the house speaker republican john boehner expressed a similar sentiment at his weekly news conference yesterday. >> this is outrageous behavior regardless of whose administration it is. and, you know, i wrote my checks out on sunday to pay my taxes. i can imagine millions of other americans wrote their checks out. and they're taking their hard- earned money and sending it to washington, and this is outrageous that their tax money is getting wasted in this fashion....
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a tearful speaker john boehner accepted her resignation letter. and florida congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz, read it aloud, on giffords' behalf. >> amid all that was lost on january 8, there was also hope and faith. this past year, it is what i have often clung to-- hope that our government can represent the best of a nation, not the worst. faith that americans working together in their communities, in our congress can succeed without qualification. >> sreenivasan: a number of lawmakers paid tribute to giffords, including one who called her the spirit of bipartisanship that we should all learn from. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen. >> ifill: we look at reaction to president obama's big speech in three parts. beginning with this report from "newshour" congressional correspondent kwame holman. >> reporter: the president was on the move early this morning, taking his state-of-the-union theme of economic fairness on the road. first stop: cedar rapids, iowa. >> no reason we can't restore that basic american promise t
a tearful speaker john boehner accepted her resignation letter. and florida congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz, read it aloud, on giffords' behalf. >> amid all that was lost on january 8, there was also hope and faith. this past year, it is what i have often clung to-- hope that our government can represent the best of a nation, not the worst. faith that americans working together in their communities, in our congress can succeed without qualification. >> sreenivasan: a number...
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>> john boehner made this offer to the president. the president was never willing to actually do the leadership role to get it down. >> brown: you have been involved in campaigns, as we said. you say this is a political issue at the moment. is it going to remain as one? do you see this as one that sort of continues with us over the next months? >> i think the president's clearly decided that this is a valuable political tactic. i expect them to continue with it. there is bolling suggests that he's making misa mistakes. that swing voters aren't interested in this pointless battle about fairness. they want the jobs, they want the debt controlled. they wan real changes. >> brown: douglas holtz-eakin, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> woodruff: next, community colleges feel the strain of tight budgets and rising demand. california is one state where the problem has been particularly prominent of late. newshour correspondent spencer michels reports. >> it's a beautiful color back here but that's not what you want. >> reporter: this
>> john boehner made this offer to the president. the president was never willing to actually do the leadership role to get it down. >> brown: you have been involved in campaigns, as we said. you say this is a political issue at the moment. is it going to remain as one? do you see this as one that sort of continues with us over the next months? >> i think the president's clearly decided that this is a valuable political tactic. i expect them to continue with it. there is...
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. >> holman: house speaker john boehner had hoped to bring up a five-year bill, worth $260 billion. he scrapped that idea today. >> the current plan is to see what the senate can produce and to bring their bill up. and in the meantime, we're going to continue to have conversations with members about a longer-term approach which, frankly, most of our members want. >> holman: current transportation funding expires on march 31. the senate is expected to vote on a final version of its bill early next week. the state supreme court of mississippi has upheld pardons issued by republican governor haley barbour, in his final days in office. barbour touched off a storm of criticism in january, when he pardoned four convicted killers. they had worked at the governor's mansion as prison trustees. the court ruled today that the governor acted properly. it also said it had no authority to overturn the pardons anyway. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> suarez: the syrian government kept up the pressure on its opponents today even as it suffered new, high-level defecti
. >> holman: house speaker john boehner had hoped to bring up a five-year bill, worth $260 billion. he scrapped that idea today. >> the current plan is to see what the senate can produce and to bring their bill up. and in the meantime, we're going to continue to have conversations with members about a longer-term approach which, frankly, most of our members want. >> holman: current transportation funding expires on march 31. the senate is expected to vote on a final version of...
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. >> sreenivasan: on the republican side, house speaker john boehner said it was today's drought measure, or nothing at all, because the farm bill is stalled. >> the house is pretty well- divided. you've got the left concerned about reductions in the food stamp program. you've got the right who don't think the cuts go far enough in the food stamp program to bring it into compliance with what the law has been. and frankly i haven't seen 218 votes in the middle to pass the farm bill. >> sreenivasan: the current farm bill is set to expire at the end of september. the house's drought bill is not expected to survive in the senate. legislation to prevent cyber attacks on critical industries will have to wait. senate republicans blocked a final vote today. they argued the bill would mean new regulations that increase costs without doing much to reduce the risk of attacks. democrats said the bill is needed now to protect everything from power grids to water supplies. both sides said they'll work on a compromise, after the august recess. afghan security forces killed five insurgents in a pre-dawn
. >> sreenivasan: on the republican side, house speaker john boehner said it was today's drought measure, or nothing at all, because the farm bill is stalled. >> the house is pretty well- divided. you've got the left concerned about reductions in the food stamp program. you've got the right who don't think the cuts go far enough in the food stamp program to bring it into compliance with what the law has been. and frankly i haven't seen 218 votes in the middle to pass the farm bill....
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>> the 99% is suffering because of the policies of george bush and because of the policies of john boehner and mitt romney and paul ryan want to push forward. that's what we've got to stop. >> that 99% see the president saved the auto industry. students will have a chance not to be deported to finish college. more jobs are being created under this administration than before. there is progress. >> woodruff: mary kay henry, lee saunders, jim hoffa, we thank you all three. appreciate it. you can visit our vote 2012 map center to find out more about labor union membership in each state. >> ifill: we're coming back with much more convention coverage, after the other news of the day. here's kwame holman in our washington newsroom. >> holman: large parts of southeastern louisiana remained heavily flooded today, almost a week after hurricane isaac hit. more than 100,000 homes and businesses still had no electricity and hundreds of people were in shelters. water was up to five feet deep across plaquemines parish. officials said for many, the damage ended up being worse than from hurricane katrina.
>> the 99% is suffering because of the policies of george bush and because of the policies of john boehner and mitt romney and paul ryan want to push forward. that's what we've got to stop. >> that 99% see the president saved the auto industry. students will have a chance not to be deported to finish college. more jobs are being created under this administration than before. there is progress. >> woodruff: mary kay henry, lee saunders, jim hoffa, we thank you all three....